West (disambiguation)

West is a cardinal direction or compass point.

West or The West may also refer to:

Geography and locations

Global context

• The Western world
• Western culture and Western civilization in general
• The Western Bloc, countries allied with NATO during the Cold War
• The Occident, an early-modern term originated with geographical divisions mirroring the cultural divide between the Hellenistic east and Latin West, and the political divide between the Western and Eastern Roman empires

Regional contexts

• West River (disambiguation)
• The American frontier, also called "The Old West" or "The Wild West", an American process of westward movement from 1600 to 1920
• The Western Regions, a historical term for regions of Chinese suzerainty in Central Asia
• Western Territories (Ziemie Zachodnie) or Recovered Territories (Ziemie Odzyskane), Former eastern territories of Germany annexed to Poland
• West (Cornish hundred) or West Wivelshire, a county subdivision of Cornwall, England
• West (London sub region), a sub-region of the London Plan
• West Region (Cameroon)
• West, Mississippi, United States
• West, Texas, United States
• West, West Virginia, United States
• Western United States, a region in the United States of America
• West Township (disambiguation); all are in the United States
• Western Australia
• West Bengal
• Western Canada
• Canada West
• West Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Astronomical locations

• Comet West, a comet discovered by Danish astronomer Richard M. West
• 2022 West, an asteroid

Acronyms

• Wales Evangelical School of Theology
• Western European Summer Time
• Weinstein Enhanced Sensory Test, a monofilament esthesiometer
• Western European Satellite Triangulation subcommittee of IAG
• WEST (formerly Tore Supra), Tungsten (W) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak, the name for the refitted Tore Supra tokamak reactor in Cadarache, France

People and fictional characters

• West (name), list of people with surname West
• Justice West (disambiguation)
• West Rosen, a fictional character from the television series Heroes

Film, television, and radio

• West (2007 film), a 2007 Australian drama directed by Daniel Krige
• West (2013 film), a German drama film directed by Christian Schwochow
• The West (1938 film), a 1938 French drama film
• The West (miniseries), a 1996 television documentary miniseries directed by Stephen Ives
• West (TV series), a 1973–74 Canadian documentary series
• WEST (AM), a radio station (1400 AM) licensed to Easton, Pennsylvania, United States

Print media

• West (publisher), an American publisher
• "West" (short story), a story by Orson Scott Card
• The West (Mayakovsky), a 1922–1924 poetry cycle by Vladimir Mayakovsky
• West magazine, published in two separate periods by the Los Angeles Times (and otherwise known as the Los Angeles Times Magazine )
• San Jose Mercury News West Magazine or West, a Sunday magazine that succeeded the L.A. Times' West magazine
• The West Australian , a newspaper
• West (novel), a 2018 novel by Edith Pattou

Music

• West (EP), an album by Ego Likeness
• West (Lucinda Williams album), 2007, or the title song
• West (Mark Eitzel album)
• The West (album), an album by Matmos, or the title song
• "West" (song), a rock song by The Alice Rose
• "West", a 2001 song by rock duo Pinback from their album Blue Screen Life

Organizations

• West (brewery), a microbrewery in Glasgow, Scotland
• West Corporation, formerly West TeleServices
• West Hartlepool R.F.C. or simply West, a rugby football club
• West Race Cars, an American-Australian racing car manufacturer
• West High School (disambiguation)

Other uses

• West (cigarette), a tobacco brand
• West, the command-line tool in Zephyr (operating system)
• Toronto West Detention Centre, a maximum security remand facility
• Kingdom of the West, a region within the Society for Creative Anachronism
• One side in the East–West Shrine Game

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with West
• Westlife, an Irish band
• Western (disambiguation)
• Wests (disambiguation)
• Ouest (department), Haiti
• Ouest (disambiguation), French for West
• Oeste Subregion, Portugal
• Oeste (disambiguation), Portuguese and Spanish for West
• All articles with "West" in the title